Top 31 Pal Benko Quotes
#1. Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves.
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#2. Psa 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
Jeff Swanson
#3. Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.
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#4. I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.
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#5. Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.
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#6. To the American people I bid a fond farewell. Guard your liberties. It is the trust of each generation to pass a free republic to the next. And if I know you right, you will rouse yourself from slumber to ensure exactly that.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
#7. It's easy to like pregnant women - they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs.
Gillian Flynn
#8. Life is a present; life is a miracle.
Life is a song divine.
When you touch my heart, hold my soul.
Oh my pure valentine.
Debasish Mridha
#10. The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her ... She is Molly.
Phillip Noyce
#11. When you defend, try not to worry or become upset. Keep your cool and trust your position - it's all you've got.
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#12. A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year."
James Keller
#13. Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.
Pal Benko
#14. he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody. As
Jules Verne
#15. In order for us and our families to withstand the pressures of the world, we must be filled with light and gospel truth.
Cheryl A. Esplin
#16. I love you, Lily of the Night. I love you so much. I'm going to love you forever,
Forever.
In the darkness, or in the light.
Mia Sheridan
#17. Praying in Jesus' name makes the distinction that all glory and honor belong to Christ, who is one with God the Father.
Monica Johnson
#18. There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.
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#19. Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It follows that regular physical conditioning should be part of your overall chess training.
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#20. I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.
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#21. According to such great attacking players as Bronstein and Tal, most combinations are inspired by the player's memories of earlier games.
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#22. Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
Walter Benjamin
#23. There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.
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#24. I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.
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#25. Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
George Bernard Shaw
#26. Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors.
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#27. Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.
Charles Caleb Colton
#28. Ivy returned his direct gaze with a particularly innocent smile. "The great advantage," she said, "of being thought silly, is that people forget and begin to think one might also be foolish. I may, Professor Lyall, be a trifle enthusiastic in my manner and dress, but I am no fool.
Gail Carriger
#29. The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.
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#30. In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.
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#31. Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.
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